Art History and Criticism

Updated June 9, 2026
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Art a new history
Johnson, Paul, 1928-2023
Paper Book
In Art: A New History, Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a world historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking...
Art and architecture in Mexico
Oles, James author.
Paper Book
This new interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. The author ranges widely across media and genres, offering new readings of...
What was contemporary art?
Meyer, Richard, 1966-
Paper Book
Not only does contemporary art have a history, but all works of art were once contemporary to the artist and culture that produced them. Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works of art were...
Woody Guthrie art works
Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967.
Paper Book
Woody Guthrie is revealed to be as significant an artist as he was a song writer, poet, writer, and political activist in a collection of more than three hundred examples of never-before-published artworks and journal excerpts. 15,000 first printing.

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